Top 95 Quotes About Innovator
#1. For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.
Ornette Coleman
#2. You need to make a decision - are you are an imitator or an innovator?
Stewart Stafford
#3. That innovator is the aforementioned Hugh Thomson, who might be called the Colin Firth of Austen-inspired book illustration." (P. 52)
Devoney Looser
#4. In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.
George Cowan
#5. The innovator's motto is this; I succeed or I learn but I never fail.
Paul Sloane
#6. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#7. Cisco has been both a pioneer in legitimizing VoIP as an alternative to traditional telephony but also an innovator as it has maintained its competitive lead over the past decade.
Barry O'Sullivan
#8. If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work ...
Christopher Galvin
#9. [In 2011 on Steve Jobs] He was the most amazing person I have ever know. He was a genius. He was an innovator. He was the best client we ever had. He was my friend.
Lee Clow
#10. The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.
Thomas Hoving
#11. Its entry on the scene was not generally peaceful. A flood of mistrust, sometimes of hatred, above all of moral indignation, regularly opposed itself to the first innovator.
Max Weber
#12. They are always motivated to go up-market, and almost never motivated to defend the new or low-end markets that the disruptors find attractive. We call this phenomenon asymmetric motivation. It is the core of the innovator's dilemma, and the beginning of the innovator's solution.
Clayton M Christensen
#13. The innovator creates a business where they are making money, even when they sleep.
Seth Godin
#14. The majority cannot reason; it has no judgement. It has always placed its destiny in the hands of others; it has followed its leaders even into destruction. The mass has always opposed, condemned, and hounded the innovator, the pioneer of a new truth.
Emma Goldman
#15. The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.
Peter D. Mitchell
#17. He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.
Craig Claiborne
#18. I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.
Yusuf Hamied
#19. I am very proud to align myself with Miken - a brand known as an innovator and leader in the development of high performance sports equipment.
Brett Hull
#20. He was an original, an innovator, and his influence will forever live on in our culture. Whether they know it or not, all DJs have been influenced by him. Thank you, DJ AM.
Clinton Sparks
#21. The innovator is not an opponent of the old, but a proponent of the new.
Lyle E. Schaller
#22. My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.
Hafez Nazeri
#23. As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.
Max McKeown
#24. Ray Johnson was a great innovator of mail art and photocopying and sending people photocopies.
Leo Fitzpatrick
#25. I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.
Lawrence Welk
#26. But to an innovator, being early is not necessarily different from being wrong.
Jon Gertner
#27. My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
Rose Kennedy
#28. So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.
Malcolm Gladwell
#29. Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is.
John Engler
#30. This is one of the innovator's dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.
Clayton Christensen
#31. What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.
Ludwig Von Mises
#32. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#33. When you create something that is popular, when you create a solution, you're an innovator, and you solve problems for people and they like what you have to offer, of course you automatically make money.
Kim Dotcom
#34. If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
Steven Pressfield
#35. You have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our lifetime as an individual. He's quite a brilliant innovator.
Christopher Galvin
#36. The last thing a chef wants in a line cook is an innovator, somebody with ideas of his own who is going to mess around with the chef's recipes and presentations. Chefs require blind, near-fanatical loyalty, a strong back and an automaton-like consistency of execution under battlefield conditions.
Anthony Bourdain
#37. Kildall, the innovator, followed his passion for technical excellence and was shocked that IBM wouldn't follow him. Gates, the imitator, took his cues from IBM every step of the way, because he believed that following Big Blue was the smartest way to follow the money.
Lewis Schiff
#38. The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time.
Clayton Christensen
#39. Coach may have been the greatest innovator the sport has ever had.
Ken Morrow
#40. I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.
Brian Wilson
#41. Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.
Thomas S. Kuhn
#42. Whoever considers the Attributes of Allaah to be like the attributes of the creation, such that the Istawaa of Allaah is like the ascending of the creation, or His Descending (Nuzool) is like the descending of the creation or other than that, then he is a deviated innovator.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#43. Take note of the fact that I am a follower (of the religion) and not an innovator.
Uthman Ibn Affan
#44. I'm discovering that the people that wake up early are really the trendsetters. They are up giving the commands on what the whole world needs to do so the worker wakes up at 8am but the dreamer, the innovator, the creator, the engineer is up at 3 or 4 in the morning making it happen.
Eric Thomas
#45. A Locrian, who proposed any new law, stood forth in the assembly of the people with a cord round his neck, and if the law was rejected, the innovator was instantly strangled.
Edward Gibbon
#46. Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.
Marco Rubio
#47. Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is the rebel or maverick, mind.
Max McKeown
#48. An innovator sees things not as they are, but as they could be.
Debasish Mridha
#49. It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about - figuring out the right product is the innovator's job, not the customer's job.
Ben Horowitz
#50. I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.
Bear Bryant
#51. Walt Disney has been described as an innovator, which means he took things that already existed and re-combined them to create something new.
Jim Korkis
#52. The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.
Clayton Christensen
#53. As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people - I am ready to lead.
Donald Berwick
#54. Any schmuck can be unhappy when things aren't going well, but it takes a truly unique variety of schmuck; a real innovator in the schmuck field to be unhappy when things are going as great as they are for me.
Tropper Jonathan
#55. The American economy has always been the innovator in the world, and we're starting to see some tremendous increases in innovation, especially in the clean energy sector.
Tim Kaine
#56. At the point that an idea approaches perfection, fashion and expectations surge ahead, leaving the innovator with considerable room to find further improvements.
Max McKeown
#57. Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator.
Rick Perry
#58. True originator, innovator and creator,
Thinkin' independent but I'm sayin' something major.
One Be Lo
#59. The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.
Eric Temple Bell
#60. To be an innovator, you can't be worried about making mistakes.
Julius Erving
#61. I'm not a pirate. I'm an innovator.
Kim Dotcom
#62. I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.
Kanye West
#63. In trying to understand the Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not at a single innovator but to a sort of bizarre Trinity : Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Bill Gates. Take away any of these three and Linux would not exist.
Neal Stephenson
#64. America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.
Mark McKinnon
#65. Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting.
Lana Del Rey
#66. He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
#67. One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#69. I like to think that Not For Sale is the Juniper Networks of the social section, a disruptive innovator.
David Batstone
#70. Rembrandt was an innovator not only in painting but also in commerce. He helped establish a full-fledged art market in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. "Rembrandt's obsession with the intricacies of the market system permeated his life and his work,
John McMillan
#71. I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!
Little Richard
#72. There is no greater goal than to truly improve Mr and Ms Everyone's health, as an innovator that is where I want to spend my energy.
Philippe Kahn
#73. The innovator's mindset can be defined as the belief that the abilities, intelligence, and talents are developed so that they lead to the creation of new and better ideas.
George Couros
#74. Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator
Ludwig Von Mises
#75. The way to be irreplaceable is to become a social innovator. Start projects that motivate you to save the world and simultaneously make you money (and create mindshare) for your company. Social innovation makes magic happen.
Richie Norton
#76. I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.
Nolan Bushnell
#77. The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.
Bob Kane
#78. The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined.
Emma Goldman
#79. [Wynton] Marsalis does not aspire to be an innovator, no one else is allowed to have new ideas either.
Randy Sandke
#81. Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today.
Stephen Wolfram
#82. Most thoughtful,"...[he said] politely. This cheerfulness was ambiguous, Had she determined to ignore ...[the] coup entirely--an established tactic, most irritating to the innovator but hard to sustain over long periods of time--or had she already evolved her counter-strategy?
Tom Holt
#83. It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
Ferran Adria
#84. The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course.
Larry Osborne
#85. Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
Al Franken
#86. What's the DNA of a marketer? We call it the 4-I's: instigator, implementer, innovator, and integrator.
Beth Comstock
#87. I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.
Judith Martin
#88. The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit.
Clayton Christensen
#89. Our strategic evolution has established Monsanto as the leading innovator in agricultural seeds and technology, .. The financial discipline we have exercised has also allowed us to establish a solid foundation which is poised for growth in the years ahead.
Terry Crews
#90. In many times, after creating a piece of work I want to stand up and applaud.
Shawn Lukas
#91. The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.
Margaret Bourke-White
#92. When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#94. The Brain Size of People who see Big Dreams, is same as of Yours.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#95. Innovation is finding a better way to make things a little better.
Saji Ijiyemi
